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The Mk48 ADCAP had supposedly completed it operational evaluation, been approved for deployment, and instuted into active service for at least 5 years before the 1992 report. Even before that the ADCAP itself had been in development since 1975, more than 15 years earlier.

I've read that various British T-boat maintenance problems put every boat except one in repairs in 2000 with the only operational boat the Triumph. I think its fair to say that every navy has experienced both design and maintenance problems. If we really wanted to be objective, we would plague every boat with maintenance problems and every weapon with problematic failure probabilities, not just the Russians.